My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.

You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

I spent my life making fashion an art form.